Table 1.
Methodologies applied for the estimations of population density.
Fig 1.
Spatial arrangement of sites in Europe and the Near East (produced using the basemap Natural Earth data by Ines Reese and Karin Winter (Graphics department of the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology Kiel).
Fig 2.
Density of agricultural populations in Southeastern Europe (the values corresponding to the dates 3500 BCE and 3000 BCE on this graph were estimated as the average for the values obtained for population densities from the ranges 4500–4000 BCE and 3000–2500 BCE, while the value corresponding to 2000 BCE is estimated as an average for population densities from the ranges 3000–2500 BCE and 2000–1500 BCE).
Fig 3.
Combined density of agricultural and hunter-gatherer populations in Southeastern Europe (one should consider that the values corresponding to the dates 3500 BCE, 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE are estimated as transformed averages: See Fig 2).
Fig 4.
Density of agricultural populations in Central Europe and Southern Scandinavia.
Fig 5.
Combined density of agricultural and hunter-gatherer populations in Central Europe and Southern Scandinavia.
Fig 6.
Combined density of agricultural and hunter-gatherer populations in Southern Scandinavia, Southeastern, and Central Europe (one should consider that the values corresponding to the dates 3500 BCE, 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE are estimated as transformed averages: See Fig 2).
Fig 7.
Density of agricultural populations in the Near East.
Fig 8.
Combined density of agricultural and hunter-gatherer populations in the Near East.